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Understanding the Brief, Detail, Extensive, and Terse Options of Junos OS Operational Commands

The Junos OS operational mode commands can include brief, detail, extensive, or terse options. You can use these options to control the amount of information you want to view.

  1. Use the ? prompt to list options available for the command. For example:
    user@host> show interfaces fe-1/1/1 ?
    Possible completions:
    <[Enter]>            Execute this command
      brief              Display brief output
      descriptions       Display interface description strings
      detail             Display detailed output
      extensive          Display extensive output
      media              Display media information
      snmp-index         SNMP index of interface
      statistics         Display statistics and detailed output
      terse              Display terse output
      |                  Pipe through a command
    
  2. Choose the option you wish to use with the command. (See Figure 1.)

Figure 1: Command Output Options

Command Output Options

Published: 2013-01-23